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GLEIF and LEI News

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) makes available comprehensive, regular and timely information on GLEIF activities and developments relevant to Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) rollout.

Regulatory Use of LEI:

GLEIF Updates on Current and Proposed Regulatory Activities Including the Use of the LEI

It is the prerogative of the authorities acting in individual jurisdictions to mandate the use of LEIs. GLEIF closely monitors initiatives relevant to legal entity identification in regulatory reporting and supervision and makes related information available on its website. We last updated the overview of the current and proposed regulatory activities including the use of the LEI on 26 June 2017.
Date: 2017-06-26

GLEIF Data Quality Reports:

Latest LEI Data Quality Reports Published

The latest Global LEI Data Quality Report shows that the Total Data Quality Score has increased over the last 12 months from 98.41% to 98.56%. The score represents the percentage of all LEI data records that successfully passed checks against the defined quality criteria. Performance improved, in particular, regarding the quality criterion ‘Completeness’. In addition, we published new monthly reports analyzing the level of data quality achieved by the individual LEI issuers.
Date: 2017-06-07

Regulatory Use of LEI:

GLEIF Updates on Current and Proposed Regulatory Activities Including the Use of the LEI

It is the prerogative of the authorities acting in individual jurisdictions to mandate the use of LEIs. GLEIF closely monitors initiatives relevant to legal entity identification in regulatory reporting and supervision and makes related information available on its website. We last updated the overview of the current and proposed regulatory activities including the use of the LEI on 24 May 2017.
Date: 2017-05-24

GLEIF Blog:

Legal Entity Identifier News: May 2017 Update

To make it easy for stakeholders to follow global developments relevant to LEI rollout, we provide related updates via the GLEIF Blog. We report on, for example: New initiatives in Africa and Asia driving LEI use; proposals by the European Central Bank and the Office of Financial Research of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, respectively, to streamline the delivery of financial data based on LEI; the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s consideration to enforce LEI renewals in the future.
Date: 2017-05-19

Global LEI System:

Transfer of LEIs from Brønnøysund Register Centre to Herausgebergemeinschaft WERTPAPIER-MITTEILUNGEN Keppler, Lehmann GmbH & Co.KG (WM Datenservice)

On Tuesday 16 May 2017, Brønnøysund Register Centre, previously endorsed by the LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee as an LEI issuing organization in the Global LEI System, ceased all LEI operations. All remaining LEIs were transferred to Herausgebergemeinschaft WERTPAPIER-MITTEILUNGEN Keppler, Lehmann GmbH & Co.KG (WM Datenservice, 5299000J2N45DDNE4Y28).
Date: 2017-05-16
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